Horn of Africa

Tigray’s rebel forces in northern Ethiopia region have called on the international community to enforce an immediate ceasefire between them and the Ethiopian government or help them defend themselves, the group said in a statement on Twitter. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) called on the international community to “compel …

Somali government announced that a co-founder and senior al-Shabab militant, Abdullahi Nadir, was killed on Saturday in the southern Middle Jubba region. The Somali information ministry said that Nadir was the head of al-Shabab’s religious propagation unit and was the subject of a $3m (£2.7m) US bounty. It added that …

Childhood diseases such as measles, tetanus and polio are on the rise in Ethiopia’s Tigray region after vaccination rates declined amid the ongoing war in the region, according to regional health officials. Data from the Tigray Health Bureau shows that the percentage of children in the region receiving routine vaccines …

Several countries on the African continent are increasingly integrating armed drones into their strategy to combat the terrorist threat. But experts said this logistical power will not be enough to overcome this phenomenon, which continues to gain ground. Drones used since the beginning of the year by Burkina Faso, Togo …

The Ethiopian government has terminated the prospecting contract with Chinese oil company Poly-PGL, saying it failed to meet the financial and technical terms of the deal. The company, part-owned by the Chinese government, has been drilling for oil and gas in the Ogaden Basin in eastern Ethiopia, the BBC reported. …

Crimes have been committed since November 2020 during the conflict between Ethiopian federal forces and Tigray forces where around 6 million people are deprived of basic services in Tigray, according to a report by the UN Human Rights Council . Experts denounce in this document, the restrictions on access to …

Somali National Army (SNA) managed to kill more than 100 al-Shabab militants in operations over the past three days in the central Hiiraan region with the support of US forces, the government said on Monday. “Air support from the United States of America has assisted this operation led by SNA,” …

Forces in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region on Sunday said they are ready for a ceasefire and would accept an African Union-led peace process. Tigray forces have been fighting central government for nearly two years. “We are ready to abide by an immediate and mutually agreed cessation of hostilities,” the Tigrayan …

At least 17 people died over the weekend in an attack attributed to a terrorist group close to Al-Qaeda targeting transport buses in the Hiran region of central Somalia. According to the official Somali news agency Suna, it was the al-Shabab militia that carried out this operation. “Seventeen civilians were …

Sudan’s foreign ministry has summoned Ethiopian ambassador Yibeltal Aemeru after he accused Khartoum of violating diplomatic norms, the official Sudanese news agency (Suna) reported. According to the news agency, the ambassador told local media that “Ethiopian forces had shot down a plane carrying weapons for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front …